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I can believe it and embrace it. Most people forget that feathers aren't the same as fur. They can insulate, but they can also cool down an animal a lot. They don't just heat an animal, and even large dinosaurs would have a sparse amount, like elephants, rhinos, and hippos.

this video goes really in-depth into the whole "all dinos had feathers" thing. It pretty much just goes over all the dino family groups, wich ones did have feathers, wich ones probably had feathers, and the odds of what dinos having feathers and what forms of feathers they might have had.

Except for the last few inches of the tail, we have a complete scaly covering preserved for "Leonardo", the mummified sub-adult Brachylophosaurus. When you combine skin samples from different Lancian/Hell Creek mummies ("Dakota", Trachodon-mummy etc) you could say the same for Edmontosaurus.

Remember that feathers were apparently a basal trait of dinosaurs, so any dinosaurs without feathers lost them at some point, rather than not having them in the first place.

Possible, but several analyses, including a recent one incorporating Kulindadromeus, have come to the opposite conclusion = the last common ancestor of all Dinosauria was scaled with filamentous structures evolving multiple times during the Mesozoic.

I'll believe it when I see proof for it... there's evidence pointing in both ways you know.

While we all know raptors and such had feathers, the feathered triceratops is still just a theory based on a single specimen. There's even skin-impressions of some species, including tyrannosaurids and hadrosaurs, that suggest that they were not fully feathered.

Almost all skin impressions from tyrannosaurs come from patches smaller than their own hands. The only exception to this that I know of is Tarbosaurus, with foot scales and a rumored throat impression, neither of which exactly disprove it having feathers. Perhaps they weren't as heavily feathered as, say, a snow owl.

The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.

The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.

That's awesome. You happen to have a link to the article?

"No matter what the future may bring, some things will never change! Like the courage and daring of true heroes!" RIP Bionicle.

The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.

"For the last 20 years, huge numbers of fossils from China have dramatically demonstrated that large numbers of dinosaur species that were closely related to the birds had all manner of feathers on their bodies. However, a new find named Kulindadromeus from eastern Russia published today in Science, suggests that in fact feathers, or at least very feather-like structures may have been present in huge numbers of other species of dinosaur, including those which are from totally different branches of the dinosaurian family tree to the birds."